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Marcel Allain

French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas.

Alexander Pope

English poet, translator, and satirist of the Enlightenment era who is considered one of the most prominent English poets of the early 18th century

Elizabeth George Speare

American writer of children’s historical fiction, including two Newbery Medal winners, recognizing the year’s “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children”. In 1989 she received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for her many contributions to American children’s literature and one of the Educational Paperback Association’s top 100 authors.

The First Circle

In the First Circle (Russian: В круге первом, romanized: V kruge pervom; also published as The First Circle) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the book was published in English in 2009. The novel depicts the lives of the occupants of a sharashka (a research …

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Fantômas

Fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre .
One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared in a total of 32 volumes written by the two collaborators, then a subsequent 11 volumes written by Allain alone after Souvestre’s death

Farewell, My Lovely

Novel by Raymond Chandler, published in 1940, the second novel he wrote featuring the Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe